The ego is only an idea...

If we have written of the ego as if it were a separate and special entity, a fixed thing, a reality in its own right, this is only because of the inescapable necessities of logical human thinking and the inexorable limitations of traditional human language.

For in FACT the "I" cannot be separated from its thoughts since it is composed of them, and them alone.

The ego is, in short, only an idea, or a trick that the thought process plays on itself.


- Paul Brunton